David, not to discourage you in any way. But I use the VTR website alot
for finding parts and cars, How would this be better, or would it be
better to not split the site where people look. Then again, how many of
you use this site. Great idea though, what does everyone else think.
Patrick Bowen
At 08:38 PM 12/1/98 EST, GatesDavid@aol.com wrote:
>Hey everyone,
>
>I remember a while back there was a discussion about how it would be nice to
>set up a website where people could list parts that they had for sale.
>Recently I started looking into ways that I could make that happen. After
>all, I may soon have parts to sell off of my "new" parts car myself. My
>thought was setting up a threaded message board for this purpose. That
way no
>one would be required to administer it on a daily basis. I could set it up
>with categories such as Spitfire, GT6, TR6, etc. If you have a part or
even a
>car to sell just post a message in the appropriate heading. When it sells
>just post a followup to it that says SOLD. The SOLD will appear directly
>under the original post. Then once a month or so I can go in and delete the
>sold items to make it easier to find stuff, more often if needed. But the
>actual posting of items would be automatic. I should be able to
incorporate a
>search function as well. I think I found a good place to host such a site
for
>free, we will just have to put up with an advertisement banner at the top of
>the page. Unfortunately I cannot use my AOL space that I am using for the
>Rogues Gallery (http://members.aol.com/gatesdavid/index.htm) because they
will
>not allow me to use anyone's perl/cgi programs except AOLs. And AOLs
programs
>are not adequate to the job. I am hoping to be open for business in about a
>week. If we start with just the spitfire list and it works well, I will add
>categories for other Triumph models as well. There is no financial interest
>in this for me as all money will be transferred directly from buyer to seller
>(unless of course I sell something myself). I would just be providing a
place
>to meet up at no cost to anyone.
>
>What does everyone think? Is anyone working on something similar? I would
>hate to duplicate someone else's effort. This will get something going
pretty
>quickly while I look into a full fledged database system. A database system
>would be better, but I need to do more homework for that, it could be a while
>(or never).
>
>David Gates
>Hawaii
>'73 Spitfire 1500 (Daily driver)
>'78 Spitfire 1500 (working on this one)
>'76 Spitfire 1500 (just acquired, probably going to be a parts car)
>http://members.aol.com/gatesdavid/index.htm
>
Patrick Bowen
'79 Spitfire
Jacksonville FL
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